President Obama plans seventh trip to CA in September — fundraising in Silicon Valley, LA

Let the games begin: President Barack Obama is hitting two California fundraising gold mines for his seventh trip to the state later this month — including a Sept. 25 stop in Silicon Valley, we’ve learned.

And there will also be a two-fundraiser stopover the next day to the Los Angeles area.

So far, there are not a lot of details on the Northern California event, but area Obama supporters and donors were told about the date and advised this week to put it on the calender.

This much is known: Obama hits Los Angeles on Sept. 26 for a pair of entertainment-related events in which tickets will range from $250 to $35,0000, according to The Hollywood Reporter, which broke the news last night.

The first Los Angeles event, aimed at entertainment industry bigwigs, is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. at the House of Blues on Sunset Blvd, the Reporter said. “A mere $250 will get a single person in the door, while $10,000 is the cost to take a photo with the President,” the paper reported.

An evening event will be held at the Fig & Olive Restaurant on Melrose Place, where $35,000 “allows you to bring a date” or you can go solo for $17,500. That event “will be a chance to participate in a Q&A with the President,” the paper said.

No wonder all the attention to the movie industry folks: the Center for Responsive Politics has reported the entertainment industry pulled in $2.53 million of the nearly $40 million collected by Obama in the first six months of the year.

But Silicon Valley is also important to the Obama Victory Fund, and the President’s trip there on the same West Coast swing should ease the mind of nervous CA Dems this month. They’re going to be watching a veritable parade of GOP presidential candidates through California in September that will include some heavy duty fundraising; Texas Gov. Rick Perry is hitting the Four Seasons in East Palo Alto on Sept. 9 for a Silicon Valley fundraising gig, one of six he’s doing statewide in two days following the Sept. 7 Reagan debate.

Reps. Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul are both expected for the Sept. 16-18 GOP State Convention in Los Angeles. (We also hear, but have not confirmed, that Bachmann may be planning some related Central Valley stops.)

The President’s trip to Silicon Valley will be his first since the April 21 visit to Facebook in Palo Alto, where he held a town hall meeting with founder Mark Zuckerberg, and did a round of Bay Area fundraising.